Obviously, the whole thing is under your absolute responsibility, even though I had no problem, I cannot assure you won’t.

First of all, you have to download the package from the official source. You can get it from Getting Started thread. In this thread you’ll find the hardware specs. required to run Steam, and the installation process for Ubuntu.

I’ve tried to use alien to get a rpm package BUT got some problems with dependencies I could not satisfy. Therefore, we’re going to “decompress” the package in the root directory.

You’ll get no prompt, apart from the terminal asking for root password. Now, you have Steam installed in your computer BUT there’s a big problem: it won’t run out of the box (Steam will throw an error about loading a library and won’t start)… I’ve found the needed dependencies by trial and error, starting Steam with the command:

LD_DEBUG=libs steam

As my installed system uses 64bit libraries, I had installed the following dependencies (however, some of them might not be necessary, but I can’t assure it now).

After zypper finishes installing software, you should be able to run Steam, getting the “library” view by default (and the Steam offers window before):

Some issues
1- Steam/Games have no sound: it seems to be a common error, and the “official” workaround is to start steam specifying the SDL audio driver:

SDL_AUDIODRIVER=alsa steam

2- Inverted cursor on Steam and other GTK windows (under KDE and other environments). Seems to be a “graphical environment” problem, due to an inverted error missing in the mouse cursor set (at least in KDE . Sale un “cursor invertido”. In my case, using Oxygen_Black cursor set:

First of all, you should remove all your KDE repositories (either from YaST or the configuration files). Then you should enter the following commands in order to add the newest repositories:su -c 'zypper ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Release:/49/openSUSE_12.2/ KDE_49'
su -c 'zypper ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Extra/KDE_Release_49_openSUSE_12.2/ KDE_Extra'

After that, you just have to type in a terminal/console:su -c 'zypper dup --from KDE_49 --from KDE_Extra '

And then, Zypper will start downloading and installing software. When the installation is finished, reload the graphical interface and then enjoy your fresh KDE environment.

Two months of extra stabilization work have resulted into a stellar release, chock-full of goodies, yet stable as you all like it.

The latest release of the world’s most powerful and flexible Linux Distribution brings you speed-ups across the board with a faster storage layer in Linux 3.4 and accelerated functions in glibc and Qt, giving a more fluid and responsive desktop. The infrastructure below openSUSE has evolved, bringing in newly matured technologies like GRUB2, and Plymouth and the first steps in the direction of a revised and simplified UNIX file system hierarchy. Users will also notice the added polish to existing features bringing an improved user experience all over. The novel Btrfs file system comes with improved error handling and recovery tools. KDE has improve its stability, GNOME 3.4, developing rapidly, brings smooth scrolling to all applications and features a reworked System Settings and Contacts manager while XFCE has an enhanced application finder.

Download openSUSE 12.2 from any of our mirrors: http://software.opensuse.org/